Most of the territory of Shiotani County is in the mountains, and the Kira family's knife against Shiotani County also falls on those barren mountains and wilderness that no one wants, so he is not too worried, and the Nikko Mountain in Toga County is located in the deep mountains, and it is basically in the position of nominally subordinate to the Utsunomiya family, and what really makes Utsunomiya Hirotsuna feel pain is that a small piece of territory in Kawachi County and that territory in Hoga-gun were cut away.

From the name of Hoga-gun, it can be known that this county has a very big relationship with the Hashiga Gaoding clan, and the two major forces in the county, the Mashiko clan and the Hashiga clan, have been fighting for hegemony for many years, and with the Yoshiko clan's Yoshiko Gaoding entering the heir of the Yoshiga clan to achieve the control of most of the county, the territory of the county is mainly controlled by the Haga Gaoding and his brother Yoshinomi Daisuke clan in the womb, as well as the Hashiga clan's Shuliu Kotaku military department Saemon Takamune.

Crossing out a territory in Hoga-gun happens to be the core area of the interests of these three families, and this knife move is no less ruthless than inserting a sharp knife in Hoga-gun, which is equivalent to digging out the foundation of the Utsunomiya family's domination in Hoga-gun, and there are only two options for these three lords, either the minister will turn the part that has not been crossed off from the Kira family into the part that has been taken away, or abandon this part of the core territory and move out of the castle to establish another castle.

The difficulty coefficient of the latter is too great, just a little flat plain is a fertile land that has been reclaimed for hundreds of years but has been forcibly rowed away, and these lords cannot be allowed to run to the mountains and hills to reclaim, and those territories are also dominated by a genealogy or local people, and most of the borderless lands are mountains and forests, swamps, and dangerous shoals with harsh terrain.

These knives slashed the dominant power of the Utsunomiya family to pieces, and a knife went straight to the heart of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna. Although a few knives down can't make the Utsunomiya clan fall into the broken predicament of the Koyama clan, it is a big difference compared to his old enemy Nasu Ziyin, who was in the war against the Nasu clan before. But it has always maintained an advantageous position.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna was dissatisfied and filed a protest, he thought that the Kira family was blatantly biased and unfair, and it was mentioned in his words that the Koyama clan and the Nasu clan were not punished and he was severely punished, which was really unfair, and as a result, Kira Yoshitoki really said that he would consider his request and deal with the rebel samurai in Shimono Province in a fair and just manner.

This can be the mountain Gao Chao, that Su Ziyin to the anxious, the former just surrendered to the promise of the ability to block, and before a few days of sleep was sued by this pit man's Utsunomiya Tsunade. For Xiao Shan, who has nothing to do with and is ready to watch the play, this is the rhythm of being shot while lying down.

Nasu Ziyin felt that he was bitten by the bastard Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, and originally thought that his defection from the Kwantung Coalition Army was a great achievement in the front and Ashikaga Fujimasa in the back, and Kira Yoshitoki had promised to help him deal with the three brothers of the Otawara family. was happily watching the good show of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna being cleaned up, and he was severely pitted by this mortal enemy, and the hatred in his heart could not be described in words.

The two families also immediately wrote a letter to defend, and one cried that his grievances were even more unjust than Dou E. Another gritted his teeth cursed Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, who had ill intentions. Koyama Takatosa, a veteran samurai of a large age, also performed on the spot, crying bitterly and kneeling in front of the imperial court of Kira Yoshishi, crying a handful of tears, almost committing suicide by cutting his abdomen to show his loyalty to the town government, at first glance, this quality is about to catch up with the level of generations.

This acting skill not only shocked the genealogy of the Kira family, but also stunned Nasu Ziyin, who was watching the play on the side, and opened his eyes and didn't know how to deal with this strange situation, and quietly glanced at the expressions of the genealogy generations of the Kira family in the military tent, smacking his lips and scolding in his heart: "The old bastard of the Xiaoshan family is really cunning." Eighty percent of the plays he played can get through the trick! If only I could cry a little bit! ”

After all, it's really hard to let him do it, not to mention that he can't do it by crying in front of a hundred or so samurai. Even with Ji Liangyi's smiling gaze, he didn't dare to splash it like this, wouldn't it be embarrassing to show his feet if he didn't cry, but he didn't know that Xiaoshan Gaochao quietly smeared some ginger on his eyes before crying, otherwise this old man might not be able to carry hundreds of pairs of eyes to perform the ability to cry.

Kira Yoshitoki took out a bat fan to cover half of his face, and said as if distressed: "Oops! Utsunomiya Shimono Mamoru's letter of protest is really difficult to answer in front of Yu, if Yu makes a protective gesture to the two halls, he will not be able to convince the public, but the loyalty of the two makes it difficult for Yu to make a decision to deal with it, how can this be good? ”

"His Royal Highness is very worried! If you don't dispose of it, you can't convince the public, and if you dispose of it, you're sorry for the two highnesses, what should you do? Sanada Yutaka also seemed to be distressed, squinting his eyes and pinching his beard to keep looking at the two samurai, and that look seemed to express some chilling meaning.

The genealogy of the Kira family said a few words of the scene, and when the new staff of the Kanto region began to discuss it, the people of the pro-Koyama clan expressed their support for the defense of the Koyama Takatomo and Nasu Ziyin, while the Shimono people of the pro-Utsunomiya clan confronted the protest of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, and the two sides quarreled as they talked, which meant to open up and stage a reality show.

Seeing this scene not only made Kira Yoshishi feel dissatisfied, but also the genealogy of the Kira family was also very unhappy, since Kira Yoshi's current Echigo has established a new system in the eastern country, the repeated emphasis on the order of the samurai law and practice, so that the chaos and order of the five countries such as Echigo is clear, and then see the familiar and unfamiliar scene of the commotion, the samurai who like to be quiet and abide by the etiquette are a little unable to hold back and scold.

"Rest for a while, listen to me!" Ben Duoshi was taking the first step to stop drinking, cleared his throat and said: "The matter related to the stability of the Bandong countries must not be ignored!" Please think about the overall situation and the stability of Bandong, and the day when you suffer a little loss will always be earned, as long as your loyalty and dedication remain unchanged, your Royal Highness will definitely remember it in your heart. ”

Koyama Takachao and Nasu Ziyin secretly said badly, and said that this crying and troublesome to the end still didn't escape this head-on-the-head knife, and wanted to say that he hated the Kira family for being unfair and didn't dare to hate, and it was more generous to think about telling them to take on a promise that he would return in the future, and if the Kira family was unreasonable, they couldn't deal with it brutally.

Since you can't hate the Kira family's injustice. There is only one who hates Utsunomiya Tsurugang Dog to meddle with rats, and there is only one Utsunomiya family who is unlucky, and it will definitely not involve the two of them to eat this knife in vain. The two pondered for a long time and felt that they could only endure it, so they bowed to the ground and said, "We will be judged by His Royal Highness the Public Minister!" ”

Kira Yoshishi watched the two leave with a smile on his face, in fact, his heart had already blossomed, these two families ate a knife in vain It was a complete accident, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's original intention to protest was to refuse his knife, but in his mouth, he insisted on using the topic to play into a climb to bite Koyama Takachao and Nasu Ziyin, these two families were frightened and hurriedly responded to the battle and finally had to eat this knife. It's good to let these three families have a grudge and a piece of territory with them.

said that, but in fact, he had to be much more cautious about the knife against these two families, after all, these two families had become foreign nationals who had surrendered to the Kira family. In the end, the Koyama clan only symbolically demarcated the ten steps of cultivated land, the reason is that the Koyama family is the least involved in the weakest, and the tribe Yuki clan has been taken away from ninety percent of the territory has been counted as a heavy punishment.

In short, it is insisted on confusing the territory of the Koyama clan and the Yuki clan into one. No matter what is being said or the other is the case, when it comes to Kira Yoshi, things can always come out of his mouth. He just wants to engage in double standards, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom have no recruitment, not to mention that the Xiaoshan family's connections are all over most of the Kanto, and the sympathizers for him are no less than the Utsunomiya family.

It's even more interesting to stab the Nasu clan, and he didn't mean to be directly led by Nasu Ziyin at all, but he was very ruthless to the territory of the three Otawara brothers, anyway, these three brothers were originally active participants in the anti-Kira Alliance, and Oseki Takazen himself was also the candidate who was ready to issue a crusade order to be asked for by Kira Yoshitoki, and the three families were directly removed from the nominal Nasu family and a step of procedure was omitted.

At this time, Xiaoshan Gao Chao and Nasu Ziyin were happy again. No matter how poor the Xiaoshan family is, it won't hurt to lose ten towns, and the fat meat that Su Ziyin is a little unhappy with at most will give to the Kira family for no reason. However, this also has the advantage that Nasu Ziyin no longer has to be the vanguard of the crusade against the three families, and only needs to sit back and wait for the Kira family to suppress these ambitious bastards.

As soon as this edict came out, it caused the Shimono country to fluctuate again, and the reply received by Utsunomiya Hirotsuna clearly felt that the tone of the words was a little heavier, as if to tell the Utsunomiya family that I had already given the fairness and justice you wanted, and there was not much left to think about it for fifteen days at this time, and make a decision as soon as possible so as not to cause new disputes at that time, which would not be good for the Utsunomiya clan.

This frightened Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, and hurriedly convened the genealogy retainers group to discuss countermeasures, but he didn't expect that at this time, the Utsunomiya genealogy generations had been quietly divided into two factions, one of which was the genealogy retainers who were assigned to the new ministers of the Kira family, and their mentality gradually moved closer to the Kira family, after all, it was always easier for the genealogy retainers to hug their thighs.

The other part is the genealogy retainers who are not included and are very jealous, they resolutely support the family governor to continue to make trouble, and some of the genealogy retainers from the Utsunomiya family have a bad mind in their hearts, hoping that the Utsunomiya Hirotsuna will make a big deal and finally be exiled by Yi Yi, and they themselves can inherit the family business of the Utsunomiya family as a genealogy retainer, even if this plan cannot be successful, they can re-emerge as an ordinary retainer of the Shijira family.

According to the rules of the Muromachi period, the main family had basically been a disaster to the retainers, and the demise of many samurai families did not prevent their branch genealogies from continuing to produce new masters, which was actually one of the characteristics of the samurai ecosystem in the Warring States period, such as the Niko family and the Otomo family, which were determined to be loyal ministers, belonged to a minority, and they were so famous because the original intention of the folk song of the loyal samurai yearning for the good was just in trouble.

Oseki Takassu, Otahara Tsunakiyo, and Fukuhara Shitaka initially had a rebellious attitude towards Kira Yoshitoki's edict, but as more than 50,000 troops of the Kira Army approached Utsunomiya Miyagi, they bowed down Utsunomiya Tsunitsuna in three or two strokes and presented an oath, and the attitude of the three Otawara brothers took a huge turn.

The three brothers, under the leadership of the eldest Oseki Takamasa, flew all the way to Utsu Miyagi to present an oath to Kira Yoshishi, and the flattery spewed out as if they didn't want money, if it weren't for the fact that the three brothers were all older than Kira Yoshitoki, maybe they could all do things that they thought they would have done.

Then Naganuma Suruga Mori in Shimono Province, subordinate to the Utsunomiya family of the Satake clan, Takemo Matsuno Tsunada, who is known as the grandson of Takemo Taro Utsunomiya Masatsuna, and the same Utsunomiya clan Muryu Motegi Kamisuke Jifang successively defected from the camp of the Satake clan and joined the Kira family, and the entire Shimono country fell into the hands of the Kira family, and the so-called Shimono Quagmia was so vulnerable in the face of the general trend.

The time to march to this point has quietly come to the end of October, as the heavy snow falls to herald the end of the year's war, Kira Yoshitoki in Utsunomiya Castle to work hard for the people of Shimono Province, and at the same time to make adjustments to the strategic objectives of Shimono Kuni, Nasu Ziyin in the north served as the banner leader of the Oshu side, responsible for the strategy of attacking the Oshu Ashina clan with the countrymen lords, especially the Shirakawa Yuuki clan's Yuuki Haruna must be taken as soon as possible.

On the other hand, it is also a good idea to appoint the badly damaged Utsunomiya Hirotsuna as the banner leader of the Hitachi side, and let Utsunomiya Hirotsuna deal with his old father-in-law, Satake Yoshiaki, who encouraged him to get up from where he fell, and as long as he could defeat the Satake clan of Hitachi Province, he would restore his original title and give him additional titles as appropriate.

Even if Utsunomiya Hirotsuna knew that this was a pit, he had to jump into it, of course he knew very well that Satake Yoshiaki's ability was above him, but now he had no way but to be a puppet, the Utsunomiya family was not united, and Kira Yoshitoki's intervention made the retainers of the spectrum even more disunited.

A small half of the genealogy of the family was swept away to be the direct ministers of the Kira family, and the remaining half couldn't tell whether it was true loyalty or lip service, he didn't dare to try to resist the consequences of the Kira family, and the departure of Yoshiga Gaoding was equivalent to pulling out his backbone, and the original genealogy family elders such as Mikawa Toshimune and Mibu Tsunao betrayed one after another, and he lost the opportunity to toss and turn, if he betrayed the Kira family at this time, maybe he would be sent to Edo Castle by the genealogy retainers in minutes to wait for hanging.

By the time Kira Yoshitoki returned to Edo Castle with his army, Uesugi Terutora's camp north of Odawara had been fortified as a semi-permanent branch of the castle, and a large number of wood and stone structures and the accumulation of Sanhe soil had an effect no less than that of Ishigaki, and months of wind and sun and repeated beating ensured that the Sanhe soil was as hard as a stone, and ordinary bows and arrows and old iron cannons could not hurt even a single hair on it. (To be continued......)